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San Pedro Junction, Florida

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mayo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32066. The Survey maps it on the Mayo quadrangle.

San Pedro Junction within Lafayette County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of San Pedro Junction, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet of San Pedro Junction, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of San Pedro Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,662 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 30 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural43
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning26
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service34-PINE LIMB FIRE-#0219
2 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMOORE (34)
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service15-TRAINING #2 FIRE #470
2 September 1993Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceABBOTT GRADE (34)
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service34-MCCRAY GRADE PILES-#0214
13 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Pedro Junction in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Flash FloodSan Pedro Junction$100,000Several roads and low lying areas were flooded, including Mayo and Buckville.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSan Pedro Junction-Trees were blown down between Highway 27 and Highway 51.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSan Pedro Junction-A tree was blown down onto County Road 360.
July 2018Flash FloodSan Pedro Junction-Water was flowing across Highway 51 in several places between Mayo and Cooks Hammock.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSan Pedro Junction-A tree was blown down on GWD Road.
June 2012Flash FloodSan Pedro Junction-A person from the Department of Transportation relayed a report to Lafayette county dispatch that flooding was occurring across Highway 51 South with water running over the roadway.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindSan Pedro Junction-A few trees were down south of Mayo.

Every storm recorded in Lafayette County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mayo3.6 miles8
Alton5.0 miles8
Peterson5.6 miles8
Cooks Hammock6.5 miles10
Midway7.2 miles10
Buckville9.1 miles9
Townsend10.5 miles9
Day13.3 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122558037The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295595. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.